Saturday, 10 December 2011

Agents of change Girls armed with education fight for their rights

PESHAWAR
Armed with only a slightly used copy book sent by her aunt from Peshawar, Azeera Gul, 12, is fighting for the rights of girls to education. Although her school in Kabal in the Swat Valley is still in a ramshackle state after being burnt down during the Taliban insurgency in 2008, Gul insists she wants to become a schoolteacher and educate girls in her village.
Gul is not alone in wishing to bring change to her valley. One story that galvanised the international media is that of

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